Entities receiving funding or other provided services, the subject of which is property, rights to property or other property rights from public sources above the limit set by law, as well as other persons designated by law, are obliged to register according to Act no. 315/2016 Coll. on the Register of Public Sector Partners and on Amendments to Certain Acts (hereinafter the Act on the Register of Public Sector Partners) to the Register of Public Sector Partners, while the legislation subsequently designates these entities as public sector partners with clearly defined legal obligations.
Without an entry in the register of public sector partners, the public sector partner will not have access to public resources and will not be able to successfully apply for them.
However, the entry in the register of public sector partners as well as the fulfillment of other related legal obligations must ensure the so-called an authorized person according to the law, which can only be a lawyer, notary, bank, branch of a foreign bank, auditor or tax advisor with a registered office or place of business in the Slovak Republic.